Includes bibliographical references and index Amelia Howe Kritzer: Revolution and after: heroism and violence in early national plays about the American Revolution Tamara Underiner: Violence averted only to return: visiting the archive of "Pocahontas Plays" Cheryl Black: The thrust for freedom from systems of oppression: a century of suicide, prolicide and viricide in plays by American women Noelia Hernando-Real: Sane enough to kill: on women, madness and the theatricality of violence in Susan Glaspell's The verge Miriam Lopez Rodriguez: New critical approaches to machinal: Sophie Treadwell's response to structural violence Jerry Dickey: Working women and violence in Jazz Era American drama Anne Beggs: The guns sing in harmony: Johnny Johnson and the musical war Dorothy Chansky: The violence at the top of the stairs: domestic dystopia in Inge's Heartland Dana Rufolo: Psychodrama strategies that protect Tennessee Williams' late-play characters from a violent world Diana Rosenhagen: "Actual explosions and actual brutality": Baraka, violence and the Black arts stage Irma Mayorga: Invisibility's contusions: violence in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and saints and The hungry woman and Luis Valdez's Zoot suit Yiyi Lopez Gondara: Threats, bad language and imperatives: verbal violence in politically (in)correct institutional speech in American drama at the end of the millennium Maria Dolores Narbona Carrion: "Arms in women's hands": the subversion of the victim role of women in Heather McDonald's Dream of a common language Michael Solomonson: Rebecca Gilman's exploration of gender conditioning as a factor in violence against women N. J. Stanley: Neil Labute, vigilante of violence: an examination of his trilogy The shape of things, Fat pig and Reasons to Be pretty Marta Fernandez Morales: Challenging the American dream: U.S. theater and the continuum of state violence Markus Wessendorf: Terrorist violence and its (dis)figurations in three American post-9/11 plays Virginia Dakari: The cancer body (politic) of American violence: John Guare's A few stout individuals Barbara Ozieblo.: Affecting the audience: Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley |
